He will bribe a city council for a franchise or a state legislature for a commercial privilege; but he has never been known, in all his sleep-walking history, to bribe any legislative body in order to achieve any moral end, such as, for instance, abolition of prize-fighting, child-labor laws, pure food bills, or old age pensions.

ThinkProgress also caught a lecture of Lee's last week in which the senator argued that federal child-labor laws were unconstitutional, seemingly based largely on his belief that the states should be allowed to make those determinations.

EMPLOYMENT Movie-Theater Companies Fined Over Child Labor The Labor Department has fined three movie-theater companies a total of $277,000 for allowing workers under 16 to perform dangerous jobs and work long hours in violation of child-labor laws.